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Posted in: The DIg Music and Video
  bgbennyboy
06-16-2002, 7:13 PM
#4
Before the server move:rolleyes: someone posted about the dig music player on lucashacks (http://scumm.mixnmojo.com/). You could play the music in that and just record it in a similar way to this (http://64.246.44.70/~lucasforums.com/showthread.php?s...  [Read More]
Posted in: DOTT and Fate Sound Missing...
  bgbennyboy
06-16-2002, 7:48 PM
#3
GARGH! I wrote a big long reply to this yesterday and them the server move went and lost it.:mad: Firstly: Look in autoexec.bat for the line starting "SET BLASTER=" Autoexec is in the root drive (c:\) and can be opened in notepad or wordp...  [Read More]
Posted in: GF one file needed
  bgbennyboy
06-17-2002, 2:29 AM
#7
Cd's dont get bad sectors, if you mean that its become scratched, try recovery software such asCdr-diagnostic (http://www.arrowkey.com/) or one of its free/shareware alternatives....  [Read More]
Posted in: Quick and Easy 3.0 and Sam&Max
  bgbennyboy
06-11-2002, 7:36 PM
#4
Nope, just tried them both and the music is exactly the same speed, on my system anyway....  [Read More]
Posted in: Quick and Easy 3.0 and Sam&Max
  bgbennyboy
06-10-2002, 3:12 PM
#2
Never noticed it. Maybe your right, probably a consequence of the filemix needed to get it to work. No fix, sorry....  [Read More]
Posted in: Running Maniac Mansion on a newer system
  bgbennyboy
06-11-2002, 3:29 PM
#6
Not sure, your best off asking on the thread mentioned above....  [Read More]
Posted in: Running Maniac Mansion on a newer system
  bgbennyboy
06-10-2002, 3:47 PM
#4
Linkage (http://www.lucasforums.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=59972) The version included with DOTT doesnt look as good as the other one mentioned on the thread above, so I presume its the original version. (If you want to run the version inc...  [Read More]
Posted in: Running Maniac Mansion on a newer system
  bgbennyboy
06-09-2002, 9:09 AM
#2
Funnily enough I got an email exactly like this yesterday........ Ive a feeling your the same person:p Ive only got the version of mm included with DOTT unless I can dig another one up. Have you tried running it with vdmsound?...  [Read More]
Posted in: Midi, Wav, Mp3
  bgbennyboy
06-09-2002, 12:30 PM
#8
In short, Kitty Collins, theres a million-and-one ways to do it (although I favour using audiocompositor or a similar program myself):D. Time to quote Ursula Le Guin. "Infinate are the arguements of mages........." Although Im not a mage...  [Read More]
Posted in: Midi, Wav, Mp3
  bgbennyboy
06-09-2002, 7:58 AM
#5
Unfortunately not, disk-writer doesnt work with midi files....  [Read More]
Posted in: Midi, Wav, Mp3
  bgbennyboy
06-08-2002, 9:22 AM
#2
You can do it that way if you like, the downside being of course that you have to wait while they all play and record. Alternatively you could use a program that might do it quicker. Use something like this (http://www.polyhedric.com/software/wavmake...  [Read More]
Posted in: Help my Grim Fandango has a Mind of it's Own!
  bgbennyboy
06-09-2002, 9:01 AM
#6
I reckon he's stuck in one of those God-awful Grim Fandango loops that (even with patch) go like this: Load game Play game Get to a bit It crashes! Reload Play game It crashes again! Get stuck in horrible eternal loop of crashing at a certain point w...  [Read More]
Posted in: Help my Grim Fandango has a Mind of it's Own!
  bgbennyboy
06-08-2002, 9:44 PM
#4
No really, we need details!:(...  [Read More]
Posted in: Getting ORIGINAL FT to run in Windows 2000/XP
  bgbennyboy
06-13-2002, 6:03 PM
#9
Pokerdan: you need to specify where ft is installed in the options (which is usually c\throttle). Vdmsound also has to be installed on the same drive as q+e. Try running throttle.exe manually, if it doesnt run then the problems with your ft installa...  [Read More]
Posted in: Converting to WAV's
  bgbennyboy
05-27-2002, 4:45 PM
#4
Right You dont just open lame.exe You need to drop the wav files onto lame.exe What you do is........... Select the wav files Then click on them with the left mouse, hold down the left mouse and drag them over lame.exe so that lame.exe is highlighte...  [Read More]
Posted in: Converting to WAV's
  bgbennyboy
05-26-2002, 3:50 PM
#2
Alright, finally a question I can answer. What you are talking about is converting wav's to mp3's Use this (http://home.pi.be/~mk442837/lame-3.92.zip) to do it. Unzip it. Then drag the wav files onto lame.exe. They will be encoded into mp3 files th...  [Read More]
Posted in: Scumm, macs and pcs.
  bgbennyboy
05-17-2002, 7:49 PM
#2
This is a job for!............not me. Its an interesting question isnt it? I dont know anything about the mac versions, if the structure of the resource files is the same then it should theoretically be possible to play them using a pc interpreter sh...  [Read More]
Posted in: ScuMMVM, DOTT and Sam&Max
  bgbennyboy
05-12-2002, 10:19 AM
#18
Originally posted by bgbennyboy Not an external comand?!?!?! Holy hell never had this before. Does it say that in a windows dialog box or in the dos window that appears when you click go? Is vdmsound installed on the same drive as Quick and Easy?...  [Read More]
Posted in: ScuMMVM, DOTT and Sam&Max
  bgbennyboy
05-11-2002, 9:43 AM
#16
Not an external comand?!?!?! Holy hell never had this before. Does it say that in a windows dialog box or in the dos window that appears when you click go? That samnmax.ini file is a modified vdms.ini that stops the s+m slow speech problem. The line...  [Read More]
Posted in: SAMNMAX and FULL THROTTLE PROBLEMS with Q&E 3.0
  bgbennyboy
06-04-2002, 8:56 PM
#26
I cant really (be bothered to) give a detailed explanation of how to use it, its fairly self explanatory.... 1)Install vdmsound 2)Install Q+E 3)Setup the vdmsound options 4)Setup the options for the game you want to play 5)Play the game You should n...  [Read More]
Posted in: SAMNMAX and FULL THROTTLE PROBLEMS with Q&E 3.0
  bgbennyboy
05-23-2002, 5:27 PM
#24
That heap error message cant be got rid of by allocating more or applying any other memory tricks, many have tried, many have failed. Like I said I dont think that error affects anything at all or is really due to memory issues, rather its a symptom...  [Read More]
Posted in: SAMNMAX and FULL THROTTLE PROBLEMS with Q&E 3.0
  bgbennyboy
05-22-2002, 8:24 PM
#22
As this is the help forum I presume your asking for a fix? The heap error message is a symptom, not a cause of the real problem: namely that the floppy scumm executable doesnt handle the song properely. Isnt a vdmsound/XP problem, it`ll do it on a 9...  [Read More]
Posted in: SAMNMAX and FULL THROTTLE PROBLEMS with Q&E 3.0
  bgbennyboy
05-22-2002, 3:17 PM
#20
No thats not the reason at all. The heap error is nowt to do with it. The reason is because of the filemix needed to get it working....  [Read More]
Posted in: Loom CD-Rom Version Sound Problem
  bgbennyboy
05-30-2002, 9:46 PM
#6
Ive since acquired Loomcd:D That fix doesnt do anything for me, but it might work for cassa. My prefered fix (as for monkey1cd) is to make a cd image of the cd in your favourite cd-r package, then mount it in Daemon Tools (http://www.daemon-tools....  [Read More]
Posted in: MI2 sound
  bgbennyboy
05-16-2002, 3:22 PM
#6
Im planning on setting up a site detailing solutions for all LEC games on all os's etc. in a month or so. Ie post-exams:) And yes the monkey madness pack is pure evil, but it can be fixed. And isnt this thread ancient?:p...  [Read More]
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